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See also [[Woman Scorned]], [[If I Can't Have You]], [[Yandere]], and [[Murder the Hypotenuse]].
See also [[Manslaughter Provocation]]
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* A common theme in country music.
* A common plot element in crime television dramas, although the murderers are less likely to be seen sympathetically in such stories.
* Played with in a ''[[Star Trek:
* Unpleasantly ''required'' as part of the Goblin newbie zone in [[World of Warcraft]] regardless of gender - you have a romantic partner, that romantic partner then leaves you for someone else, and you [[But Thou Must!|have to]] hunt them down and rip out their cheating heart.
** Mind you, the one they've left you for is also trying to sell you into slavery, so it's a bit more understandable.
* The ''[[
* In [[Vorkosigan Saga]] there is an example of Death by Man Scorned where Aral kills two men who had seduced his first wife. It is presented more sympathetically because it was in a [[Duel to
== Woman kills Man ==
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** Despite being the original trope namer, the show doesn't really give the impression that what these women did was acceptable... just that they can manage to manipulate events to get away with it.
* The extended version of Garth Brooks's "The Thunder Rolls" (though the video depicts the husband as being abusive as well as adulterous):
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To the bedroom door
She reaches for the pistol
Kept in the dresser drawer
Tells the lady in the mirror
He won't do this again
'Cause tonight will be the last time
She'll wonder where he's been }}
* The first published version of the [[Murder Ballad]] "Frankie and Johnny" ("He was her man/But he done her wrong") appeared in 1904, making this [[Older Than Radio]].
* This trope is the entirety of [[Oxygen]]'s ''Snapped''. Most episodes covers a [[Real Life]] case of an abused and/or cheated-on woman who killed her husband (sometimes father). They try not to paint the women in a sympathetic light, but the show still has a "You go girl" kind of feel.
** Sometimes the husband is a saint and the woman is simply tired of being married but doesn't want to go through a divorce, or wants his life insurance policy, or the woman was actually a sociopath. These episodes don't count, though - they're just plain ordinary murder and not relevant to this trope. Women ''do'' sometimes kill people for reasons other than "bad men".
* This is the setup for the Roald Dahl short story "
* Cher's ''Dark Lady''.
* [[Lil' Kim]] has killed at least 2 boyfriends in her songs.
* [[Anna Russell]]'s songs "Dripping With Gore" and "Two Time Man" are (mild) parodies of this trope as used in country music.
* "If You Hadn't, But You Did" from the musical revue ''Two on the Aisle'' has a verse beginning in soap-opera-style bathos and ending with a gunshot. It then turns into an angry [[List Song]] running down the reasons for saying goodbye to her husband, most of them having names like Geraldine and Kate.
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== Man kills Woman ==
* Garth Brooks's "Papa Loved Mama" is presented as comedy. This version is sympathetic to both the lonely, cheating mother ''and'' the cuckolded, murderous father.
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Mama loved men
Mama's in the graveyard
Papa's in the pen }}
* The ambiguous ending of George Jones' "Radio Lover" can be interpreted as this, involving a cuckolded DJ husband who comes home to catch his wife in bed with another man, and then sings the song's chorus, "The last words they ever heard."
* Subverted in ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'': Andy's wife was cheating on him, and he goes to jail for her murder. He's innocent, though.
* The rap song ''Scandalous Hoes II'', which ends with murdering the woman for cheating, presented as completely justified
* Possibly subverted in [[
* Tom Jones' Delilah.
* ''Hey Joe'', recorded by a number of artists
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* Weirdly appears on ''[[Rome]]'' when Vorenus finds out his grandson is in fact his wife Niobe's son by another man. According to Roman custom at the time it was not only Vorenus' ''right'' to kill her for her infidelity, but it was also what honor demanded (and Vorenus is constantly shown to put [[Honor Before Reason]]). He grabs a knife but doesn't seem like he will be able to actually kill her, so she flings herself off a balcony and takes her own life as a final act of love.
* In [[Oscar Wilde]]'s "Ballad of Reading Gaol," this is the condemned prisoner's crime.
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For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved
And murdered in her bed. }}
* The third verse of [[Dr Dre]] and [[Eminem]]'s "Guilty Conscience" has the two arguing as [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|a man's conscience]] on whether or not to kill his cheating wife and her lover (Dre tries to talk him out of it, but Slim Shady is goading him to go ahead). They both agree to do it after Slim calls Dre out on his own past ("You gonna take advice from somebody who slapped Dee Barnes?").
* Appears to be the case in Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "We Came Along This Road". The song's lyrics start with "I left by the back door, with my wife's lover's smoking gun" and then describe the protagonist going on the run.
* Richard Marx, "Hazard", ''maybe''. The male character's accused of it, but the truth is intentionally ambiguous.
* Played with in Reba
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